Listen guys, here it is, as bold as anything. I think you would have to ignore the evidence to say the creationist Theory of stuck in a rut species is correct.
Message 31 is correct, thanks Perd.
This is also correct by Ned;
That is exactly why the process of science is so messy and contentious. Only by having a battle over ideas can the best survive (implicit analogy is deliberate)
And it seems that I have even said that evolution is the best survivor when concerning the example of these fossils, at it explains not only the
normalized selection - but the rest of the evidence aswell. Therefore I will cease to use that controversial example/analogy and henceforth create a new one if I can.
If we can "See" the possibility of skepticism number two, then we can isolate it and concentrate on being more of a number one. I definately had to drop my number two to cease being a YEC. I "wanted" young earth to be the case, so evidence would be ignored a bit, and I would take silly explanations of a young universe, like gravitational time dilation, in order to comfort my number two.
I'm glad of Ned and Perd's input.
Okay, if I was abducted by an alien, and all my senses indicated I had been, and I had pieces of metal imbedded in my arm, and there were witnesses of the spacecraft(500 witnesses) to independently verify this abduction - then what would I believe?
Would/should I believe it to be true if all the evidence matched up?
Would/should I believe it as false, because I doubt that if aliens existed, they would come millions of light years to fidget with meger me, then disappear into the cosmos again?
Just to confirm, all of the data/evidence suggest this
did happen.